my computer my rules fuck off i wanna have the power to uninstall system32 without any bullshit
See, even if you did, you’d still have to unbabyproof the C:\Windows directory because they’ve babyproofed it to such a degree that a simple del C:\Windows\System32 as admin won’t suffice. You have to give yourself ownership of that folder by fiddling with the group policy settings because TrustedInstaller is the user that has god level access to the entire system.
I did this when I was wanting to hilariously break Win11 in a VM since it ran far noticeably worse than 10.
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I’ve had the honor to work at a company which ditched Slack for M$ Teams because they wanted to save cost after paid for whatever fancy Office 365 package MS offered them.
If I worked at M$ on Teams I would just go postal then kill myself out of the shame for shipping such a disgrace of a communication tool.
A lot of the software reeks of being outsourced pajeet code. It’s completely ridiculous. 11’s UI is atrocious and it burns so many CPU cycles because they abuse Webapps for a lot of their core windows applications. And I foresee this getting worse in Win12.
They’re in a death spiral of adding more features at the cost of making things overall buggy because spending time on bugfixes doesn’t generate money for their “As a Service” business model. It’s Arch Linux except the “Oops xorg broke” tier problems are more common on software developed by a multi billion dollar company vs software that’s packaged, developed, and distributed as a labor of love by a community of engineers and sysadmins who love and enjoy software development.
This is quality work from the likes of Microsoft nowadays (from an insider preview):
It’s an Electron app. Know how many Electron apps don’t run like a thousand Pajeets shat down its street? One – Visual Studio Code. And even it’s getting worse lately.
I refused to “upgrade” from Windows 7 to 10 for this kind of bullshit. M$ is trying its hardest to replicate the walled garden model of Apple, with mixed results. Nowadays I run Linux full time, and I haven’t felt more at home.
Same, but I still need to boot windows on vm because of work. Have you broken free of ms office?
Eh, I rarely have to use office. I don’t really use my personal computer for work, so I’m not forced to use anything, but I do use Google Docs in the rare case I have to use a spreadsheet or to do a presentation. I do have a Windows VM with office installed, but I only really use it for Photoshop and miscellaneous video editing, and that’s not common.
What the fuckity fuck fuck??? What kind of retardation is this? 😐😐😐😐😐 Duude…
How you gonna do like, development, on a platform that hides all you need to develop? Idk. Magic I guess. Shit. Anyway.
Do they mean hide hide or like control + h and all the .folders appear hide?
That’s what it sounds like, yeah. You won’t be able to unhide system files. They can be toggled by once again editing the registry…
I could see someone writing a script to easily make that alteration like individuals did to disable Cortana
That’s what I imagine, and everything in system and windows and all of those folders.
Don’t worry. Microsoft apologists will bitch and complain about it, but still continue to use it because it’s inconvenient learning a different OS that isn’t wrapped in bubblewrap. Or muh softwareeee.
I just virtualize Win10 LTSC on Debian nowadays in the exceedingly rare cases that I need to use Windows specific software.
I’m a hostage of DirectX… sad that Vulkan never really took off. And, WINE still isnt really adequate for me to just sit down and use.
Yeah. I won’t mock anyone who genuinely uses it or is chained to it who have unique usecases that cannot be provided or difficult to provide on Linux. Thankfully I don’t need to play vidya so I don’t need to go through the hell that is passthrough since libvirt/virt-manager are junk. WINE is even more of a crapshoot if you just want to use it with plain jane windows applications, so it’s not really worth using for my rare usecases.
That being said, it’ll be a cold day in hell when I have Windows touching bare metal.
When was the last time you tried? If this is genuinely the thing that’s stopping you. The only thing I have ever had problems running under Proton were due to Anti-cheat and not much else, though to be fair, I don’t play many games anymore. I also do understand that some people do have to use windows, or just want/prefer to. In the end you should use whatever works for you. Only reason I’m mentioning this is on the off chance the only thing stopping you is DirectX. Valve’s Proton (built-into steam) makes most things just a playable experience out of the box. At least from my experience.
Did you come from reddit?
I use windows everyday because I like playing overwatch. A lot. And drg. And also my laptop has some hardware that is incompatible with the Nvidia drivers that are shipped for a all the Linux distros I tried. Which means I can’t dual monitor. Which sucks. I also utterly fucked the grub and no one helped me so after 3 weeks of endless agony I decided to just play overwatch in peace and pretend everything is alright. 😊 *inner screaming echoes*
After my adventures with getting Linux to play nice with Nvidia hardware, I just opt to say to not bother with Nvidia when it comes to Linux. They’re downright hostile towards free software and having a kernel update drop you into a TTY prompt because their build scripts are incompatible with the newer version for whatever reason is just inexcusable. I can navigate my way around in a pure CLI environment and fix it, but a lot of newbies cannot.
I would say the same thing but it’s very hard to do gaming with the games I like without Nvidia :( If I have free time, I spend a lot of time gaming, be it by myself or with my friends. I look at my start menu and there’s so many games I couldn’t play on Linux.
I just virtualize Win10 LTSC on Debian nowadays in the exceedingly rare cases that I need to use Windows specific software.
I use WSL2, a shitty integrted linux virtual machine for windows. Much better than a normal VM, but much worse than raw Linux. But much better than Windows for development in general. Especially since I know a lot more bash than powershell.
As someone who moonlights as a Windows apologist (I use Linux everywhere but my gaming rig), this feels expected and doesn’t bother me much. It seems like power users can still get these options back by editing registry keys, which is pretty par for the course on legacy stuff. And I do think all of these options are for things that look dated compared to the streamlined look W11 is attempting to project.
Now, the circled ones are obvious no-brainer nice-to-haves that I will for sure be reenabling. But approaching things from the other side, I want to point out that the average LUser is pretty unsavvy. And seeing as mobile dominates the market share → “thought share” of OSes, I think comparing the way Windows does things to mobile makes it pretty clear as to why even having these options is going the way of the dodo for general users.
“Toy OS” is 100% correct, but that’s what people want for better or worse.🤣
Oh, but also my gut instinct tells me that removing “show drive letters” isn’t going to live past this
beta“Insider Release” (YAY!™ branding! 🙂). That just feels like it opens up too much of a potential extra speedbump for over-the-phone support to be worthwhile.Edited OP to include a source.
